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Friday, August 13, 2010

Busy Friday!

Lots going on! The biggest thing this weekend is that the EtsyBloggers are having a team wide sale for our 3rd anniversary as a team. You can view all of the sales here. Approximately 50 shops are participating. I'm offering FREE SHIPPING in my entire Etsy shop, include sale and custom items, today through Sunday. I will do a few single day free shipping offers before the holidays, but this will be the longest free shipping sale for randomcreative for 2010. So take advantage of it while you can!

I published my second beading PDF pattern yesterday. This one is for my Button Embellished Beadwoven Bracelet design. Check it out here.

You can view all of the button embellished beadwoven bracelets that are currently available for sale here.

As promised, I have a couple new leafy developments. I reworked my Indian Summer design and updated the listing yesterday.

I want to mention that I normally use Aleene's Jewelry and Metal Glue for the knots on my leafy designs. I don't normally glue my knots, but because this design is fairly weighty, I like to give it a little extra security. The glue itself works pretty well, but the bottle is a bad design. I always end up getting glue everywhere, and it's about as strong as super glue so it doesn't create a good situation. Jake always keeps super glue around for his models so I tried Loctite super glue for this bracelet instead, which was much better. Their bottle designs are amazing. If any of you who bead weave need a glue for your weightier designers, I highly recommend it.

I'm working on a couple purple/pink leafy designs next. Here's a sneak peak at the first one.

I haven't mentioned any non fiction books that I've been reading in quite a while. I recently checked out Camera Creative: Professional Photography Techniques for Innovative Images by Chris Gatcum from the library. For those of you who use a light box and/or enjoy experimenting with photo editing/lens/etc., this is a great resource. I have gotten some excellent advice from it about my light box, as well as confirmation that some of the things that I'm already doing are good.

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Welcome to my blog! My name is Rose Clearfield. My husband and I live in Milwaukee, WI with our three cats. We love it here. I use this blog to share my creative process, sources of creative inspiration, happenings on Etsy, and much more. If you ever have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.